Murphy's Law for Zynga Poker

1. You will fold your 7-2 offsuit only to see 7-7-7 on the flop.

2. You will complete your inside straight draw right when someone else completes a flush draw.

3. You will flop a set of aces, only to lose to a straight.

4. Your full house will lose to four of a kind.

5. You will get four of a kind, only to have your internet connection crash.

6. You will rush to the bathroom and back, only to find that you have timed out and folded your pocket kings.

7. The aggressive all-in player ahead of you will fold as soon as you get a good hand.

8. The first winning hand you get in a sit-n-go tournament will be when you are short-stacked.

9. Everyone will call your $100K bluff, but fold to your $4K value bet.

10. You will get pocket kings as soon as someone else gets pocket aces.

11. You will buy in to a $1 million sit-n-go, only to realize you have to leave for work in 15 minutes.

12. The good looking person of the opposite gender at the table who is flirting with you will ask you for chips within 5 minutes.

13. The river will only give you the needed card after you've folded.

14. The new player at the table, who goes all-in first hand, wins with rubbish cards against premium ones.

15. The error msgs multiply the closer you get to the end of a 2nd or 3rd round shoot out.

16) you will get a run of busted straights: 4,5,6,7,9. then you will get 4,5 hole cards and the flop will be 3,6,7. at last! but then the next two cards will be the 4 and 5 that you had and the player across the table will have the 8.

17) you have an A and a straight gets dealt. you raise heavily and the rest of the table follows so you think you're on to a decent pot. except 3 other players have an Ace too, the same 3 players who have been raising against you, so you win nothing.

18) a newbie joins the table and whatever cards you have, they have one better. if you have a pair of 7s, they have 8's. if you have high cards A,7 they have A,8.

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Randomness in Zynga Poker

DOH, this is one of the theory made by me supporting that Zynga Poker is not random.

1. Beginner's luck

Any person who starts playing Zynga poker usually has luck higher than a normal person. This is the reason you see that new player win most of the hands. It is made so that any new player get attracted and gets addicted playing Zynga poker.
U may think that , its the achievement thats adding to one's chip count, but it isn't.
It s beginner's Luck!!!

2. Pre-Determined winner (PDW)

The winner is pre-determined before the game begins. Which means that, no matter what card you have, if all go all-in then u win for sure( if u dont fold) assuming u r the pre determined winner. It is the same with a real Texas Holdem Poker u play with real cards. The 5 cards on the stack cannot be changed after the cards are dealt to players.
Consider that 9 players are playing on the table, there exists a pre-determined winner and a second winner ( in case the pre determined winner folds). So, for every 9 hands u play, in average, u r a PDW once and a second winner once. Therefore ur chances of winning is 2 out of 9 which is approx equaling to 25% and that is what ur winning percent would usually be.

3. Bait

Two kinds of bait exist. One is a simple bait where a player gets cards such as AA, KK, AK etc. He either goes all in or wait till the river to find that some else with a bad hand such as 7 3 off suit would win a flush, straight or a full-house. Awesome!!!
The other kind of bait is not yet named by me, it is same as the other bait but bait is made by normal cards. Something like this in the photo.


4. Luck factor

The % of winning hands is determined by luck factor that Zynga Poker provides u.
The scale is from 0 to 9

0 When playing after getting banned for sending chips.
1-2 Warning of any kind either for sending low amount chips or receiving chips or any other activity that is against the ToS.
2-3 Normal Luck
4 Supposed to be the ideal luck theoretically.
5-6 The extra luck u get when u buy in with more chips.
7 This luck is what i call a beginner's luck.
8 When u buy chips from poker.
9 Practically not possible to have it

So, these things support the discussion about ppl having AA, KK and QQ in the same round. But the one who has 66 wins with a Three of a kind or full house
All this is done just to make Zynga Poker more fun to play. Or else a fair play would yield a winner having pair of 8's or max of two pairs. But here we often see straights, flush full houses which go or doesn't match the odds given to them.

And BTW, if u have more chips and u keep losing them till u reach 0, dont think it s just because u played foolishly trying to recover lost chips by going all in even when u get an Ace, its because, Zynga wants u to lose chips, so that u can buy chips from them

If u have any theories of ur own which i would have missed then pls reply